Born in Osmaniye in 1972, Çokan completed primary and secondary education in Osmaniye and graduated from the Faculty of Law at Ankara University (1991-1995). In 1996 Çokan completed the legal traineeship at the Ankara Bar Association and, after registering with the Ankara Bar, began practising as a lawyer. In the same year Çokan sat the judicial examination and, having passed, trained as a candidate judge in Ankara between 1997 and 1999. On completing judicial training, Çokan was appointed as a judge. In 2001 Çokan left the judiciary voluntarily, settled in Kocaeli and began practising as an independent lawyer registered with the Kocaeli Bar Association. Çokan still practises as an independent lawyer in Kocaeli and is one of the founders of the Law and Change Association and the Informatics and Technology Foundation.
Analysis
Throughout history, the fall of societies, as much as their rise, has been the result of a socio-political cycle woven from divine laws. The Qur’an expresses this universal principle through the concept of sunnatullah. In the view of the Qur’an, the destiny of societies is shaped not by chance but by the immutable laws of Allah; throughout human history…
Halit Çokan
Analysis
Western civilisation has positioned itself not merely as a historical experience but as the ultimate measure of humanity. It has presented its own cultural journey as a universal norm, its own history as an inevitable direction and its own crises as unavoidable stages of humanity. This presentation is not an innocent self-confidence…
Halit Çokan
Article
Throughout history, power has been both humanity’s test and its mirror. Every hand that power has touched has either illuminated a truth or legitimised an injustice. That is why the Qur’an presents prophets, not kings, as the representatives of sovereignty; for when power is left unlimited in human hands, it overflows divine…
Halit Çokan
Analysis
Through projections and planning for the future made decades in advance, the Fetullah Terrorist Organisation aimed to infiltrate the finest capillaries of the state. In line with this aim, the organisation turned in particular to the state bureaucracy and attached special importance to the military bureaucracy. To achieve this aim…
Halit Çokan
Analysis
The Fetullah Terrorist Organisation is not a religious or Sufi organisation in the classical and traditional sense. The Fetullah Terrorist Organisation (FETÖ) is not merely an espionage organisation or one with the appearance of a religious community; it is a cult structure shaped around a charismatic leader and based on mental submission. The leader…
Halit Çokan
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